.Founded in 1910, _KONE _is _a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world's cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an _innovation and sustainability _leader with repeated recognitions by _Forbes _, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others. _We are looking for a Lead Engineer - RnD, also referred to as Lead Engineer (LE) in this document, plays a critical role in technical activities in her/his scope. LE plays a crucial role in end to end component and sub-system technical development and change management, ensuring the solution will meet requirements set by Stakeholders, Architects and Systems Engineers. Similarly, a LE may be driving the implementation and change management for product platform engineering initiatives.General- LE is responsible for developing and maintaining sub-system as per requirements set by stakeholders, system engineers and architects and according to sub-system roadmap- LE is accountable for technical performance, compliance with codes & regulation- LE masters technology applicable to own component and sub-systemCreate and maintain technical solution for component and sub-system- Accountable and Responsible for creating detailed design specification from requirements- Accountable for developing and maintaining technical solution- Responsible for overall quality of the outcome of technical design- Responsible for ensuring cost competitiveness of solution over lifecycle- Support Project/Program manager and release manager with technical competence to prepare project/release plans- Support and guide engineers with technical competences in engineering design and verification- When playing role in any SC processes (Blue, Purple, CR, DevOps), LE is responsible for technical outcome of corresponding solution- Supports Sourcing and Supply Chain teams on technical aspects relating to the component or subsystem- Plays active role in selecting subcontractors and/or technology partners when activities are externalized. Responsible for task assignments to external parties and guiding them.- Responsible for corrective and preventive actions to maintain technical competitiveness of own scope product and service- Responsible to prepare suitable verification and validation plan for own scope developmentNew solutions- Actively contributes to exploration of new technologies as applicable to own component or subsystem, where applicable.- Is responsible for ensuring technical future-proofness of own solutions and proposing improvement actions when needed.- Generates news ideas for technical solutions